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Postal History of South Georgia, 1913 ~ 29
PROVISIONALS
1923 BISECTS
Two, or more, stamps were required for the 3d UPU, 1 oz surface letter rate, introduced 1 January 1922
During March 1923, Grytviken Post Office suffered a shortage of ½d, 1d and 2d stamp resolved by the initiative of
the Postmaster who authorised the bisecting of 2½d and 6d stamps to meet this emergency
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The letter, sent by a member of the whaling community, was headed “Leith Harbour, Good Friday 1923”;
The bisected half of a 6d stamp was used to pay the 3d UPU letter rate to Brooklyn, United States
Taken by SS Elevenes, departing Grytviken on 30 March 1923 bound for Buenos Aires
Only two covers are known franked with a bisected 6d,
both datestamped by SG1 on MR 30 23 (30 March 1923); the other to a bank in Norway
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